Correlation Analysis
Mastercard Incorporated vs Principal Financial Group, Inc.
MA vs PFG
+0.531
Moderate positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
Mastercard Incorporated
↗MA
Mastercard is the second-largest payment processor in the world, having processed close to $11 trillion in volume during 2025. Mastercard operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 150 currencies.
Market cap 447.2B
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
↗PFG
Principal Financial Group Inc is a financial services provider. It offers various financial products and services including retirement, asset management, and workplace benefits and protection solutions to individuals and institutional clients. The company, along with its subsidiaries, operates in the following reportable segments; Retirement and Income Solutions, Principal Asset Management, and Benefits and Protection. Maximum revenue is generated from the Retirement and Income Solutions segment which provides workplace savings and retirement solutions, banking, trust and custodial services, individual variable annuities (including RILAs), pension risk transfer, and investment services to businesses, their employees, and other individuals.
Market cap 19.8B · 19,700 employees
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
in sync
MA and PFG tend to move at the same time.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.531 (they moved in the same direction).
Do They Crash Together?
Correlation by Market Regime
How these series behave when markets are rising, falling, or diverging. A correlation that holds in drawdowns is very different from one that only works in rallies.
Both Rising
+0.099
13 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.203
7 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.568
15 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
28.2%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
66.9%
How often both series moved in the same direction period-to-period.
Overlap Quality
1,254
Deep shared window — 1,254 usable pairs.
Significance
p < 0.001
95% CI: [0.490, 0.570]
Scatter
XY Regression
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline Summary
1,254 paired data points survived the daily window.
Raw input
1,254
1,254
Normalized
1,254
1,254
Prepared
1,254
1,254
Aligned
1,254
1,254
Invalid removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Series A
Mastercard Incorporated
MA
Market cap 447.2B
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
PFG
Market cap 19.8B · 19,700 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
5
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.0504
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
55.6406
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
MA
Mastercard Incorporated
Highest
+0.987
VISA Inc.
V · 1,254 data points
Lowest
-0.898
United Parcel Service, Inc. Class B
UPS · 1,254 data points
PFG
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
Highest
+0.788
Exxon Mobil Corporation
XOM · 1,254 data points
Lowest
+0.224
Tesla, Inc. Common Stock
TSLA · 1,254 data points
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